15 weeks

please forgive the following photo. This was taken on a tripod, self timer, and manual focus. I had nothing to focus on prior to jumping in the frame, so it was a guess. I will stick to using Chris from here on out :)

Food and Cravings.

Disclaimer: sorry if its annoying that I will be posting about 'pregnancy' stuff often. Its just, happening.

I feel like I am a eating machine lately. I have been so hungry, ravenous even, and for specific foods.
I took a few photos. Heres what I have been eating:

A Cinnabon from the mall. Oooey Gooey goodness.

Crappy chinese food. I had huge craving for hole-in-the-wall chinese, but since Chris only likes Panda Express I settled for that. It did not do the trick. The next day I got this for lunch, and to be honest I dont think I will be craving it again. Not very good.

Ranch Dressing. On anything. I figure a salad may be healthiest.

Beef + ooey melty cheese= cheeseburger. I wanted Red Robin fries since they are fat and kinda mushy. I love soggy fries with a lot of ketchup. I do not usually care for really crisp fries. Weird, I know.

Taco Bell!!!!!!!!!!! Oh any day I could eat there. I love the ground beef and sour cream.

Here is something I actually made at home. I love meatballs. We usually buy a bag of frozen ones from Sam's, then make them all different ways. This is "meatball strognanoff". Super easy: egg noodles and meatballs. The sauce is a packet of brown gravy made with milk, then a couple tablespoons of sour cream.

Judging me yet??

13 weeks!

Is there anything there yet? The books say the baby is the size of a peach and my uterus is the size of a small melon, but I cant tell yet...I am in no rush to show, just want to enjoy it as it comes!

Tara's Shower!

My sweet sister-in-law Tara is having a baby boy. She is due this winter. We celebrated her and baby Ryan a couple weekends ago. It was a very pretty shower! Her mom did a lot of the decorating it looked so adorable. The theme was birds/nests.

Sisters :)

Journaling

I wanted to journal this pregnancy. I also wanted it to be something I could put in a memory book along with photos.

I came up with this idea, to do a 'digital journal' that I could eventually print off and put side-by-side to my progression belly pics in a scrapbook or photo album. I am not showing yet, so I haven't taken any, but for now enjoy these entries from the first trimester!

I wish I had done more entries, but not much is going on yet!

I hope to do a belly photo at least every 2 weeks and that will help me to remember to journal.

privacy & pregnancy

Thanks to everyone for supporting me as I made the switch to "private". Not really something I was thrilled to do, but it was important to my husband so thanks for supporting me as I support him.

I am kinda sad that my 'followers' wont increase and I will never have the potential of being a big, famous blogger who makes big bucks for blogging, but oh well. Life is changing and we have to keep a few things for 'certain eyes only'. I can't wait to share the journey of this pregnancy and motherhood with all of you!

Chris and I are so excited to be having a baby! This is something I have of course wanted for a very long time, and even though it was not necessarily 'planned', it is such an exciting thing. We are so thrilled.

I am 12 1/2 weeks pregnant. I found out at 4 weeks, when I thought I was really 7. I thought that would make this whole process feel extremely slow, but this first trimester has flown by. I probably can thank that to having virtually no sickness. I haven't been miserable at all. I have been a little tired, some dizziness, extreme hunger, and very mild nausea. As long as I eat, I feel great! An empty stomach has not been my friend, but still, no throwing up at all (minus the time I took vitamins on an empty tummy, drank a spicy hot V8 too fast, and cleaned up a horrible mess of dog doo. but 3 times in 3 months? I'll take it!).

I did get the flu shot this past Monday and that evening and entire next day was terrible. I did actually throw up the next morning, as was accompanied by a horrible headache and body aches, so I did contribute that to the vaccine and not pregnancy.

I am so thankful for a great 12 weeks so far. I feel so blessed!

a [very] pleasant surprise

Baby Olivia

Our good friends Joe and Stacey had their baby last weekend. When we visited them at the hospital I snapped a few photos of their gorgeous baby girl!

Such precious moments! So glad they let us visit and capture them! Chris and I both love holding their sweet girl! She is perfect!

Going Private

Ugh I hate to do this, but I have to!

Please leave me your e-mail, dont be shy!

Love,

Shannon